Introduction 1
Part One Semantic Devices 21
1．Simile 22
2．Metaphor 27
3．Analogy 46
4．Personification 51
5．Zoosemy 59
6．Synaesthesia 62
7．Hypallage 63
8．Verbal Symbol 67
9．Metonymy 69
10．Synecdoche 74
11．Antonomasia 80
12．Allusion 84
13．Euphemism 89
14．Periphrasis 94
15．Hyperbole 97
16．Understatement 101
17．Variation 108
18．Nicknaming 109
19．Paregmenon 113
20．Hendiadys 114
21．Epanorthosis 115
22．Repetition 118
23．Polysyndeton 126
24．Paradiastole 128
25．Polypunctuation 128
26．Pleonasm 131
27．Ellipsis 131
28．Asyndeton and Parataxis 136
29．Sentence Fragment 140
31．Aposiopesis 143
30．Paraleipsis 143
32．Syllepsis 147
33．Zeugma 150
34．Antithesis 156
35．Oxymoron 158
36．Paradox 161
37．Epigram 167
38．Parallelism 168
39．Climax 170
40．Anticlimax 171
41．Represented Speech 177
42．Ecphonesis or Exclamation 178
43．Dubitation 179
44．Pun 180
45．Irony 186
46．Innuendo 195
47．Satire 196
48．Ridicule 200
49．Rhetorical Question 203
50．Allegory 206
51．Inversion or Hyperbaton 209
52．Anagram 213
53．Palindrome 216
54．Malapropism 218
55．Spoonerism 220
56．Bull 221
57．Hysteron-proteron 222
58．Metastasis 222
59．Enallage or Functional Shift 223
60．Parody 224
61．Mimesis 230
62．Graphic 231
64．Prosopopoeia or Vision 233
63．Biblical Rhetoric 233
65．Apostrophe 235
66．Prolepsis 238
Part Two Phonetic Devices 240
1．Alliteration 240
2．Assonance 245
3．Consonance 248
4．Tongue Twisters 249
5．Onomatopoeia 250
6．Homeoteleuton 255
Part Three Syntactic Devices 258
1．Active and Passive Voices 259
2．Balanced and Parallel Structure 262
3．Short and Long Sentences 264
4．Sentence Types 269
5．Periodic Sentence and Loose Sentence 273
6．Appositives and Parentheses 280
Appendix Ⅰ 292
Appendix Ⅱ 295
Appendix Ⅲ 297
Bibliography 301